On Tuesday 15 May 2001 10:02, you wrote:
> That could be a _little_ difficult with almost 800 - 900 files. Any way of
> doing it at one go ? something like
>
> string *.doc > *.txt (yes I know this might be asking too much)
You can write a simple shell script like this
for i in `ls *.doc` do
string $i".doc" $i".txt
done
Check the exact syntax. It's been ages I have done any shell programming...
The problem is similar to renaming all .doc files to .txt files. It's been
discussed before..
About tabs, I don't know...
Shridhar
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